If you have followed CAD Notes posts since early this year, you may already read about project Butterfly. Now the project is gone, come out from beta, and released as final application: AutoCAD WS and AutoCAD WS Mobile. There are some buzz about it last week, but in case you missed it or wondering what […]
Autodesk Homestyler: Design your interiors online… for Free!
These days we can see many web based applications available. Some of them are free (with or without limitation) and some are premium paid services. I saw that Autodesk now also has several web based applications. I have to admit that I’m impressed what we can do with web based applications today. I tried Homestyler, […]
Revit 2011: Some Small Enhancements
There are some more nice enhancements in Revit Architecture 2011. Before we continue to some considerable major enhancements, let us see some small enhancements that we can see in Revit Architecture 2011. Temporary Dimension Temporary dimension is the dimensions that appear when you select an object. This dimension allows you to define the object distance […]
Revit Architecture 2011: View Controls Enhancements
After we discussed the interface enhancements in Revit 2011, now we move further. There are some new settings and tools in Revit view controls. Let us see the enhancements in view controls. Visual Styles When you see the visual styles options, you will see two new visual styles: consistent colors and realistic. If you see […]
Revit Architecture 2011: Interface Enhancements
Revit Architecture 2011 has been released. I know I’m a bit late to cover this, but I hope this is still useful for you. There are many good enhancements in this new release. I’m quite impressed with the development by Autodesk team. I will cover them in separate posts. In this post, I would like […]
How to: Set Local Help File as Default in 2011 Version
There are many enhancements and changes in the new features of AutoCAD and Revit. One of them is the online help documentation. By default, the 2011 product line will attempt to open help file from Autodesk server. Wow! I can’t imagine how many users are using it at a time! The reason why Autodesk do […]
AutoCAD 2011: Other 2D Drafting Enhancements
We have seen that there is additional menu in AutoCAD 2011 contextual menu: polyline. There are 3 more new items added in AutoCAD 2011 contextual menu: select similar, add selected, and isolate. All of them have been around for years in some Autodesk vertical products. I believe AutoCAD Architecture and Civil 3D already have them […]
AutoCAD 2011: Polyline Enhancement
Let us discuss more about the AutoCAD 2011 enhancement. We have discussed about the AutoCAD 2011 hatch enhancement, and now we are going to discuss about AutoCAD 2011 polyline enhancement. Like the hatch enhancement, there is nothing you can’t do in AutoCAD 2010. There is nothing different with creating polyline, but you can modify polyline […]